The grammar of Japanese mimetics: Perspectives from structure, acquisition and translation

doi:10.4324/9781315646695

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『移動とことば』(Mobility and Language) (2018)
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Kawakami, I., Miyake, K., & Iwasaki, N. (Eds.). (2018). 『移動とことば』(Mobility and Language). Kurosio Publishers

The grammar of Japanese mimetics: Perspectives from structure, acquisition and translation (2016)
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Iwasaki, N., Sells, P., & Akita, K. (Eds.). (2016). The grammar of Japanese mimetics: Perspectives from structure, acquisition and translation. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315646695

Mimetic words, also known as ‘sound-symbolic words’, ‘ideophones’ or more popularly as ‘onomatopoeia’, constitute an important subset of the Japanese lexicon; we find them as well in the lexicons of other Asian languages and sub-Saharan African langu... Read More about The grammar of Japanese mimetics: Perspectives from structure, acquisition and translation.